RapidMiner Community Edition is a Java based application designed to provide you with multiple tools for data analysis tasks. The program can help you browse through the data and create models in order to easily identify trends.

When you are dealing with a large databases, identifying the connection between two events can be difficult or even impossible. Since there are multiple businesses who rely on the available information to make important decisions, data analysts are using specialized applications to visualize and understand the data.

This program aims to provide you with an intuitive and effective tool for analyzing data from multiple sources. As a result, RapidMiner allows you to load the required information from plain text files, Office documents or even database servers such as Oracle, MySQL or PostgreSQL.

In order to start an analysis you need to create a process and import the data from an external file or database. The included wizard allows you to specify the data range and detects duplicate data in order to prevent errors.

The Operators panel enables you to select the tool that you need to use and drop it on the main process window. Here you can visually arrange the desired tools, connect multiple operators and specify the execution order before starting the analysis.

If you are not a data analyst, the number of data transformation, visualization and modelling tools might seem overwhelming. However, the program provides you with multiple tutorials and an extensive online documentation in order to help you access the tools that you need.

You can also start by using one of the available templates and sample files in order to understand the basic functions. As the results of the analysis need to be shared with other users, the program includes a wide range of exporting options.

To sum up, RapidMiner is an efficient solution for the analists who need to visualize and understand complex data.

RapidMiner Community Edition was reviewed by Sorin Cirneala, last updated on November 18th, 2013